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by plandis 9y ago
Didn't like the song but enjoyed the creativity of it!
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by plandis 9y ago
Failed to patch in a prompt manor. Waited to disclose the issue to the public. Set up a credit monitoring service that was insecure and would auto charge you (the auto charge was dropped after people were outraged). The CEO blamed the whole
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by plandis 9y ago
Performing translation on the fly with technology is a HUGE win for humanity. I'm glad to see others besides Hear One taking this seriously for your average consumer. It's unclear to me though; will these work with any phone?
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by plandis 9y ago
You're probably right. The EU had no idea they were related or under the same leadership as the US companies. /s
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by plandis 9y ago
Except effectively the EU decided to change how they interpret tax law specifically for Apple and Amazon [1] [1] https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/tax-policy/treaties...
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by plandis 9y ago
They are not being fined. EU decided to retroactively tax Amazon more. Amazon is required to payback the taxi that EU suddenly decided to charge even though Amazon legally worked with a country to come up with that taxing scheme.
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by plandis 9y ago
Well actually the US published a white paper [1],on how the EUs interpretation (not a change in law) changed when it benefitted hem to go after Apple. This isn't collective bargaining it's selective application of the law to give
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by plandis 9y ago
You're correct. It's a shake down of American companies. The US Treasury released a paper detailing how Apple at least was abiding by all laws and not really doing anything out of the ordinary. I suspect Amazon is in a similar pla
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by plandis 9y ago
With great power comes no responsibility, apparently.
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by plandis 9y ago
What exactly is repugnant?
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by plandis 9y ago
What do you mean it wasn't fair or objective?
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by plandis 9y ago
To be in the 30%+ tax brackets you would need an income of about $200k. The highest federal tax bracket is 39.6% so I'm not sure how you'd be in a 40% tax bracket. Additionally you'd need to be making much more than $200k to
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by plandis 9y ago
Perhaps the person you're responding to is referring to Microsofts old business practices that involved trying to segment open source projects with the intent of making them inferior to Microsoft products? Open source, free software, c
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by plandis 9y ago
Is it okay to have the comment section of a HN post be just one giant ad? The majority of the posts seem to be Google employees. There is basically no discussion. Unless we are counting misleading companions between GCP products and their
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by plandis 9y ago
Doesn't this case prove that this is faulty thinking? The company loses but the CEO makes out with hundreds of millions.
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by plandis 9y ago
You pay us in electricity draw we didn't tell you about is a good business model?
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by plandis 9y ago
I'd love to hear your take on how Bill Gates owes his success solely to slavery?
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by plandis 9y ago
I knew of people in college that were socially inept probably because they spent much of their time in isolation working on computer hobbies growing up. I'd see them in the labs and they always seemed really depressed. It seemed like t
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by plandis 9y ago
I believe that NPRs Planet Money did an episode on this a few months ago.
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by plandis 9y ago
Conversely, I was able to pass (with As) some physics exams without really understanding. That became painfully obvious in my solid-state physics lab class.
621.
by plandis 9y ago
I think you might be, err, doing sex wrong if that's how you describe it.
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by plandis 9y ago
> "I haven't heard of anyone who goes out and specifically drinks with their friends," he said. "It's not something you set out to do, like, 'Oh yeah, I'm going to go out and get drunk.'" I th
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by plandis 9y ago
Where exactly is the moral violation here? Businesses utilize leverage all the time. Nobody is stopping New Republic from publishing but that doesn't mean that a company needs to keep paying them.
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by plandis 9y ago
According to this Amazon job listing [1], DynamoDB isn't even the biggest (in terms of throughput) data store that Amazon uses. [1] https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/447605/systems-engineer
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by plandis 9y ago
I'm not going to say you're lying but I think you're being eh misleading. This investigation is happening due to increased scrutiny of the Whole Foods merger and isn't a formal investigation by the FTC. Effectively the F
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by plandis 9y ago
Only 60% of your requests to Amazon went through? That is really really bad. I don't remember hearing of an outage.
627.
by plandis 9y ago
This was already posted earlier this week, wasn't it?
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by plandis 9y ago
Is the DAC even good enough in the iPhone at that point? Even if you had a straight jack audiophile headphones are probably not getting much benefit over, say, Bose headphones are they?
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by plandis 9y ago
Yeah I'm not sure if that's new or not but it's the first I've heard of it. That seems like a really cool idea.
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by plandis 9y ago
I can diversify my investments, I cannot diversify the company I work for. For an individual being employed is pretty risky. I'm fairly confident that I have enough money to survive a recession without needing to take a hit on my inves

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